broke: spock's eyeshadow was meant to define nimoy's features on low quality tv screens and to indicate that he's an alien (which is why vulcans even in ds9, etc. have blue eyelids)
woke: spock spends his mornings beating his face and reports to the bridge wearing juicy plumpalicious trixie cosmetics strawberry lip gloss
real shit: spock's eyeshadow was intended as stage makeup to emphasise nimoy's facial features and spock's non human ness but since we've somehow regressed in our attitudes regarding masculinity since the 60s AOS and SNW were so scared of anything about him being read as outwith the status quo (read: queer) that they retroactively ensured that he is destined to blossom into the fabulous queen theyve now made him become in tos, subsequently turning a practical sfx choice into the queercoding they were so afraid of
